Four Game-Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders, and Impact Investors

by Carol Sanford

The Responsible Entrepreneur offers four archetypes for entrepreneurs to use to learn how to grow their businesses into powerful platforms. Responsible entrepreneurs seek to transform industries and even society itself. Sanford presents a blueprint for the kind of leadership that is required.

Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

by Sally Hogshead

How the World Sees You gives a step-by-step method to help you know what makes you valuable to others, which will help you to be more authentic, confident and able to be at your best to create better relationships, grow your business and become even more valuable to those who matter most.

Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World

by Nadya Zhexembayeva

Overfished Ocean Strategy offers five principles to help businesses to find new opportunities in what were once considered useless by-products, discover resource-conserving efficiencies up and down their value chain, transfer their expertise from physical products to services, and develop ways to rapidly try out and refine these new business models.

How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

by Josh Linkner

The most successful companies, brands, and individuals make reinvention a regular part of their business strategies. Transformation demands an ongoing process of discovery and imagination. Linkner identifies six elements in any business that are ripe for reinvention and shares examples, methods, and step-by-step techniques for creating deliberate, productive disruption.

The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

Receiving feedback is essential for healthy relationships and professional development, but we dread it and often dismiss it. Stone and Heen explain why getting feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, and they offer a powerful framework for interpreting comments, evaluations, and unsolicited advice in ways that enable effective learning.

How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes

by G. Shawn Hunter

The methods and mindsets needed to drive innovation and become game-changers in the 21st century are found by tapping into the discretionary levels of passion and initiative within us. In each chapter of Out Think, a key idea, behavior, or mindset shift is presented and techniques are described to show how the shift or idea can be implemented to ultimately drive the change that leaders want and need in their organizations.

An Executive's Guide to Survival and Success in the Changed World of Work

by Mike Johnson

The “job for life” is dead. But you still have knowledge and experience that companies need. Johnson shows how to maximize your value to the firm, plus warning signs that it’s time to jump ship, and constructive steps to take when you’re laid off. Great career advice.